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James Webb telescope confirms a supermassive black hole running away from its host galaxy at 2 million mph, researchers say

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

Supermassive Black Hole ‘Snowplows’ Can Stifle Star Formation in Spiral Galaxies

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

X-ray spectra provide sharpest image to date of a rapidly spinning black hole

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...
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NASA X-ray spacecraft reveals the shockingly violent history of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Maunakea observatory astronomers make groundbreaking discovery about black holes, their true power

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a ...

The Milky Way's black hole is hiding an explosive past, evidence suggests

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

First galaxy-wide wobbling black hole jet discovered in a disk galaxy

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

XRISM gives sharpest-ever glimpse at growth of a rapidly-spinning black hole

Astronomers have obtained the sharpest-ever X-ray spectrum of an iconic active galaxy, providing the most accurate, precise ...
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Science news this week: A runaway black hole, a human ancestor discovered in Casablanca cave, and vaccine schedule slashed

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Runaway Black Hole Escapes Its Galaxy—and It’s Leaving Baby Stars in Its Wake

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its wake. Astronomers have long theorized about ...
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Something fundamental about black holes may be changing

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

Astronomers watch a star being torn to pieces by a supermassive black hole

A team of researchers recently reported the discovery of AT2024wpp, an extremely energetic event involving a black hole and a massive star locked in a deadly ...